“The Cabinet of Curiosities interested me as a concept because for me, it embodied the perception of the world as a collection of artefacts and moments, and their collection and categorisation based on intuition. I saw it as a way of creating a self-portrait without a figure, a self-documentation through one's surroundings.


In the course of making the work, I gradually became aware that the way I had been working, that is, setting a theme and creating images that fell under it, no longer suited me. For me, the subjects of the paintings began to act as mediators for the formal aspects of the painting, and together they were linked by the fact that they depicted moments that I had experienced and that had affected me enough to stick in my memory. Using these moments, I tried out what means were important to me to express the situation: texture, colour, composition, perspective, ground and dimension. My attempt to foreground the figure was unsuccessful, so I wondered why self-portraits were so important to me as a means of expression.


My conclusion was that creating a narrative of one's own life is both a form of diversification and a way of dealing with one's own memories and impressions that would otherwise lack both context and reason, a constant attempt to categorize and justify one's own existence.”


Vera Perecárová is a student of the studio of drawing and graphic arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno. She is mainly engaged in painting, but also in graphic art and drawing. The main theme of her work is the exploration of fictional worlds, in which she uses banal motifs of her environment and everyday life to build them. Autobiography is also an element in her work, whether in the form of self-portraits, environments or objects from her environment or situations she has experienced.